Instead we spent the day running errands for the pond work at our old house. Sadly I never saw my favorite Koi, Zorro, the entire time we were there. I've had him since March 1998 and will miss him terribly.
We started our day at Lilypons to buy a pump for the pond.
Lilypons is a 'town,' or at least it is a U.S. Post Office, that was named after a 1930's opera singer named Lily Pons. Lilypons is a bright pink Victorian-style house with several additions.
On the expansive acreage is ponds, lots of ponds, with all kinds of water plants sold at exorbitant prices. They also sell Koi and other hardy pond fish; we have a few from them that we bought in 1989. These fish are like children to us and is one of the reasons we couldn't part with our old house.
While there we saw 'Dock Dogs' competitions and the daughter of our instructor at Bad Dog University (P.U.P.S.).
We had just missed her go at the event. We stayed long enough to realize that Max would be completely suited for this, as long as we get him graduated with honors from his school.
We then went to a BigBox pet store for more supplies. Lilypons does sell this equipment, but is seriously over priced. After that we went to the house, started assembling the new stuff and realized we needed more stuff. On to the another BigBox pet store, then back again.
The prognosis is good for the remainder of the fish. We've lost maybe 10 fish so far, and these are big Koi, the size of Beagles. Some we've had over twenty years.
The weather continued to look threatening rain all day, but never had a single drop.
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